Private passenger vehicles tend to be older in areas of higher socioeconomic deprivation

Posted 5 months ago by Kirsty Craig Less than a minute to read

We have just published an EHINZ Perspective on private passenger vehicle age and socioeconomic deprivation. Here are the key findings:

Private passenger vehicles tend to be older, on average, in areas of higher socioeconomic deprivation.
The median age of cars increases from 12 years for decile 1 (least deprived), to 16 years for decile 10 (most deprived).
Newer cars (0-9 years) make up 40.6% of vehicles in the least deprived areas (NZDep2018 decile 1) but only 21.7% of vehicles in the most deprived areas (NZDep2018 decile 10).

Read the full report here.